CERN in Geneva, a unique research facility. Two years the particles has to be maintained accelerator now. What the scientists are doing for so long?
A ring-shaped Tunnel 100 meters underground, 27 kilometers in length with huge magnets and detectors. Through the particle accelerator of the European nuclear research centre CERN, outside Geneva, protons lawn usually, radiation with almost the speed of light. The smallest particles are placed in a high energy collision.
conditions, such as the big Bang
The collected data form the basis for research on the origin of the universe, explained Karl Jacob, from CERN: “Due to the high energies, the collision energy, we create on the smallest space conditions, such as shortly after the big Bang,” says the physicist.
science assumes that the universe arose 13.8 billion years ago in a big Bang. At CERN could generate conditions such as shortly after the big Bang, explains Jacob. And in order to reproduce in the laboratory, “the forces and particles that have then been”.
according to the scientists of CERN, the Higgs Boson discovered, the so-called God particle, the other particles contributes to their mass.
